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<td class="v">12:1</td>
<td>Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.</td>
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<td class="v">12:2</td>
<td>The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.</td>
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<td class="v">12:3</td>
<td>He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:</td>
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<td class="v">12:4</td>
<td>Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;</td>
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<td class="v">12:5</td>
<td>Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.</td>
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<td class="v">12:6</td>
<td>Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.</td>
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<td class="v">12:7</td>
<td>He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.</td>
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<td class="v">12:8</td>
<td>And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.</td>
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<td class="v">12:9</td>
<td>And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.</td>
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<td class="v">12:10</td>
<td>I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.</td>
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<td class="v">12:11</td>
<td>Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.</td>
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<td class="v">12:12</td>
<td>And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.</td>
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<td class="v">12:13</td>
<td>And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.</td>
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<td class="v">12:14</td>
<td>Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him.</td>
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